Before their months-long salmon feast ... Other brown bears in Alaska have been observed rubbing lovage plants on their bodies to ward off insects. Some even eat volcanic ash to treat intestinal ...

They will also eat roots, flowers, and herbs, too. Brown bears, such as those found in North America, also love to eat salmon ...

Females are half to three-quarters as heavy as males. HABITAT: Kenai Peninsula brown bears frequent salmon streams and berry patches in the summer and fall and over-winter in mountainside dens. RANGE: ...